FOOTNOTES:
[A] A lecture delivered at Chautauqua, August 17, 1882.
[B] Extract from a sermon delivered at Chautauqua, 1882.
[C] Eighth Round-Table held at the Hall of Philosophy, August 15, 1883.
[D] For Prof. Bailey’s address see Editor’s Note-Book.
[E] Development of English Literature and Language. By Alfred H. Welsh, M. A. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago.
[F] Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Edited by James A. Froude. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
[G] Jocoseria. By Robert Browning. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
[H] The English Novel. By Sydney Lanier. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
[I] A biography of William Cullen Bryant, with extracts from his private correspondence. By Parke Godwin. D. Appleton & Co., New York.
[J] Memorials of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D., late Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. By Rev. S. J. M. Eaton, D.D. Robert Carter & Brothers, New York.
[K] Globe Readings from Standard Authors. London: Macmillan & Co., 1883.
[L] Home College Series. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1883.
[M] Numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10, of Riverside Literature Series. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1883.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. The more usual Fräulein is spelled Fraulein in this text.
Page 566, “Calvanist” changed to “Calvinist” (is a Calvinist, but not)
Page 579, “dose” changed to “doze” (sense-overseer begins to doze)
Page 587, “exsited” changed to “existed” (Normans, and existed)
Page 587, “yoeman” changed to “yeoman” (southern yeoman delighted)
Page 595, “our” changed to “our” (generally given out)
Page 595, “person” changed to “persons” (the fifty persons present)
Page 602, “langguage” changed to “language” (about posy-beds, the language)
Page 602, “inqury” changed to “inquiry” (inquiry. Great forestry)